Donald Dumb hinted Monday that Musk may have to go back to running his company, apparently because citizen protests against Tesla have severely diminished the value of the brand while better competitor EV companies have skyrocketed in value. Musk’s brand may be tainted forever, as citizens and consumers are nowhere near to forgiving the neo-Nazi illegal immigrant from South Africa for firing tens of thousands of government employees.
Trump said of the Tesla CEO. “He wants to [go back to his company]. I'd keep him as long as I could keep him.”
The president’s comments came amid growing public concern
about the chaos and turmoil caused by Musk’s DOGE, and while the once
high-flying Tesla brand is crashing.
As a “temporary government employee”, Musk is under a 130-day cap on his services at the White House, which means his tenure should end by the end of May.
Tesla, meanwhile, is experiencing severe turbulence. Sales of its electric cars are plummeting around the world as Musk-fueled rage makes the vehicles increasingly unpopular with consumers who once flocked to the brand. The company’s share price plunged 36 percent in the first quarter. He himself acknowledged that his DOGE “efforts” to slash federal spending is costing him — and Tesla — “a lot.”
Backlash over Musk’s leading DOGE was swift and has grown in recent weeks as Musk claimed last week that DOGE cuts an average of $4 billion in federal spending each day. But Musk has been complaining like a spoiled brat that his “…Tesla stock and the stock of everyone who holds Tesla has gone, went roughly in half. I mean it’s a big deal.” Tesla stock dropped by more than 5% to $248 per share in pre-market trading yesterday Monday as investors await weaker first-quarter sales than previously expected. Deliveries are expected to have taken a hit from the “Tesla Takedown” protests that have continued to put pressure on Tesla, as well as weaker sales in Europe and China.
Meanwhile, the Social Security Administration (SSA)’s website has been crashing and blocking millions of retirees from accessing their accounts, and call centers are overwhelmed with long wait times. A former White House official with the Office of Management of Budget, Julie Siegel, says Elon Musk is destabilizing the Social Security Administration’s technology and operations, creating widespread access issues for millions of Americans. The agency has faced website crashes and overwhelmed call centers, leaving many struggling to resolve payment problems.
Siegel served as Deputy Federal Chief Operating Officer at
the Office of Management and Budget under the Biden administration until
January 2025. She says that DOGE's actions are deliberately aiming to discredit
social security by disrupting its operations. Since Musk’s raids on SSA offices
nationwide, recipients have complained of long wait times on phone lines and
website glitches, making it harder to resolve issues with payments or update
personal information. The SSA website has crashed multiple times in the last 10
days, blocking millions from accessing their accounts. By undermining the reliability of SSA services, the pretext can then be made that it is inefficient and needs to be replaced or revamped.
The agency has undergone a significant staff reduction, with further plans for the closure of local offices, and the agency's phone system is struggling to handle the surge in calls. All of this has resulted in worsening customer service, Siegel said, particularly affecting vulnerable groups like retirees and disabled Americans. "You actually need actual human beings to operate the technology, and [Musk] keep[s] firing people," she said, adding under the current administration, "staffing is down and the technology is breaking," which is resulting in a "lot of really angry customers."
"… you don't break the old system without building the new system," she said, adding system failures "can't be a surprise." Musk reportedly plans to go even further with his "modernization" efforts and overhaul much of the agency systems.
But experts warn that "This is exactly what happened when [Musk] took over Twitter and fired all the engineers, the website was glitching," he said. "When you're running a social media website, outages happen and then the platform comes back up and nobody's off any worse. But when you're running a massive government bureaucracy, any kind of tinkering or changes in the code on the website could have serious ramifications for people who rely on these checks."
Musk has attacked the reputation of the Social Security Administration by referring to it as a Ponzi Scheme fraught with widespread fraud, including among other things, that tens of millions of dead people are erroneously receiving payments. This claim has been widely refuted by experts and former SSA commissioners.
Why would Musk, and Donald Dumb behind him, deliberately undermine Social Security? Simple: They want to PRIVATIZE IT, i.e. give the “lockbox” and its money to private corporations that would invest it in the stock market and cause its demise at the next 2008 financial market crash. They want to privatize it so it will be profitable for the shareholders of those corporations. In simple terms, they want to gamble with taxpayers and retirees’ money. As a retiree myself, I find the management of the Social Security Administration to be exemplary, in contrast to my lifelong dealings with other private companies (phone, media, insurance…) that are often corrupt, slow, and inefficient.
But the GOP and its Republican billionaire elite are adamant at brainwashing dumb Americans into believing that "government is bad" and "private sharks are good". When you privatize, you place profit before service, and people suffer. We've all been there, we've all had bad experiences with corporations. Why do we continue to listen to the barbarians of the MAGA-GOP?
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